Re: General GTK questions

[kilobug freesurf fr (Gaël Le Mignot)]

Hello steve!

Tue, 13 May 2003 21:23:27 -0400, you wrote: 

 > Hi;
 > I first got acquainted with gtk on linux.  I am still being impressed.

 > I installed gaim on my windows box at work and was very impressed that
 > GTK also runs on windows.

 > Is this done with the gtk runtime engine?  Is gtk ported to new
 > platforms or interpreted?

Programs using gtk must be recompiled to work on another platform, there is
no interpretation done at runtime.
Gtk+ is splitted in several libraries, most (in not all) of OS-depend stuff is
in GLib and Gdk; Gtk itself just calls the drawing primitives of Gdk.

It works like  the basic functions like "open", in  your C program you
just call  open("file", O_RDONLY); and  when you compile and  link the
program it'll use the "open" function of your system.

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